Friday 29 February 2008

Work or Study overseas money transfer explanation


     We have always popularized the different specific services for both private or corporate money transactions we offer in Transfermate, but we have never explained in details what are they all about and in which cases you should use a particular specific service among our 7: for the private customers - Work/Study overseas, Propery overseas, Regular transfers, Salary/Pension transfer; and for the corporate clients - General payments, Flexi transfer contracts and Forward flexi contracts.
     Speaking about a specific service we should start with the Work and Study overseas money transfer opition you can use. Here's the thing, many people, or in other words many of you plan to emigrate and move to another country with the intention to work for a higher salary and get more money for the job you've been doing in your home country. First, since there is no way for you to travel with more than e.g EUR2000/USD3000 - EUR3000/USD4000, you need a way to get your initial kick-off money abroad for your easy start in the foreign land. Now here's the choice for you! First you surely will need a bank account in the country you are going to not only for transferring funds but for getting your salary in it, paying your health and social insurance and other taxes. So the thing you can do is to open a bank account for example by using the services of Traveltowork - offshore bank accounts. Now, let's say you've already did that job and you want to get your money into the bank account abroad. Then comes the specific service offered by Transfermate called Work/Study overseas which you can use sending your money to the offshore account in advance, so that you won't have problems in your start there. The services is prepared especially for emigrants with preferential rates and price when going international. Of course, once you already have a job anywhere in the world and want to send money home, the same service is the most appropriate for this need. So that is an example of working abroad and transferring money with a particular private money transfer provided by TM.
     Now, other example of the use of Work/Study overseas money transfer could be if you are a prospective student looking forward to get your education abroad no matter if it would be in an University, College, High-school or whatever education institution you choose, and you need to get money from your home land potentially from your parents to support you financially during your study period. That is why you will need a service to receive money overseas from your ancestors in order to live abroad, especially if you do not have the time or chance to work along with the lectures. In that case, and because of those needs we created the Work/Study overseas money transactions, and again like in the case above you just have to click and fill in the application in order to get your money from the parents bank account to the student one. Again, you can use the offshore banking services of Traveltowork to get your bank accounts set up.
    We hove we were helpful with this post for people working or studying or looking forward to do that abroad.

Tuesday 19 February 2008

Transferring your money to a secure bank account

   Many people have different sources of money earnings and different types of expenses, but in any case all of us need to pay taxes in order to avoid problems with the IRS, and tax declarations may cause you headache sometimes. That is why, along with the long-term saving plans, people like to store their money in secure bank accounts internationally. A preferable location for this purpose is Switzerland, due to the country polices which do not allow any institutions to have access to the banks customers info, balances and details. So many of our clients issued questions regarding the process of wire transfer to Switzerland.
   The thing is that there is nothing different in this case, just like you make any other standard international money transfer through Transfermate. You wire transfer the money to a 3rd party TM bank account given to you in the beginning of your process (upon registration), and Transfermate takes care to load your overseas bank account with the money you want to transact, no matter if the bank is Swiss, US, UK, or whatever it may be.

Tuesday 12 February 2008

3 tips for international wire transfers

   See, when it comes to making a wire transfer many people make the same mistakes again and again, and I am not talking about misspelling the receivers bank account information, but for expenses you can avoid, and time you can save, if you know how.

   1. If you have to make regular payments overseas, for example corporate money transfers from one firm's bank account to another abroad, you surely have to do the following things. If you have a bank account in currency other than the one used in the receiver's account, and yours is in a bank other than receivers' please I beg you make a bank account in the local branch of the receivers' one in the same currency. That way you first will avoid taxes paid for bank2bank transactions and you will save time by not having to wait the delay usually persisting when money are being transferred between two institutions.

   2. Use online banking for money transactions. Nowadays almost all banks have the service online banking and deliver to you the chance to make banking operations directly from your computer connected to the Internet. When you make a wire money transfer over online banking you avoid the service of employees of your bank and time is saved by you not having to go to any office, to wait on a line, to fill in paper applications or so on. For online money transaction to occur you can use the TAN/PIN codes provided from the bank to you with your internet banking.

   3. Use all the fields in the money-send application in the offline/internet banking. That way you will surely use the IBAN and Swift systems considered to be the fastest fund transaction systems in the world as well as having the highest possible security on Earth in terms of wire transfers.


FYI you can open Offshore bank accounts here.

Thursday 7 February 2008

Did you know?

   Did you know that when passing many international borders it is illegal to carry an amount of money greater than defined for the specific Customs between the two countries? Yes it is. That is why you should, you must transfer the money in advance somewhere you've decided to use them abroad, especially if you are traveling on purpose to make some business payments in real-time.
   Of course there is a chance for you to pass the border with cash that exceeds the limit allowed, but be sure that tons of declarations and documents will follow for you to fill in and explain where do you have the money from, what are you planning to do with them (and therefore to pay taxes on what you're planning to do with the funds).
   Contrasting on the "cash&carry" method to move funds across international borders, the bank transfer overseas differs with the huge huge limits which require some declaration on the use of the money and the avoidance of the annoying Customs, trying to make a criminal out of you, cause if you have e.g more than EUR2000 on the German or the British border, forget to pass in or out without providing the 'nice' Customs staff all the information proving exactly where the sum is coming from and where to it is going. So, please, think reasonably, let the money fly by the wire transfer.